If you follow me on Instagram, you've probably seen a few of the art journal spreads I've posted recently that are labeled #ARTifacts. This is a new art journal I've started to try and document my creative / artsy year. If you haven't heard about this, the mastermind behind this project is Seth Apter (read more about the concept on his blog.) I think it's such a cool idea! I've already been tracking everything I do during the year in a kanban board on Trello, but I love this idea because it really celebrates each project and ultimately the book becomes a piece of art on its own.

So without further ado, here are the pages in my book for January (it was kind of a busy month for me, so there was a lot to document!)

Title page:

The first spread was entirely dedicated to my first beaded art quilt. I worked on it for almost 10 months, finally finishing it last month. I think wrapping up a project that big definitely deserves two pages!

The book I'm working in is handmade, and only about 5"x7". I wanted the pictures to be big enough to really see the project, so that meant I had to get creative in order to have room to write and also decorate the page. So, there are lots of interactive flaps on both sides of this spread!

For the last January spread, I documented my project day for Creative JumpStart 2017 as well as a few art journal pages I'd managed to get done that I particularly love.

Whew! That's it for January... looking back at all of that kind of makes me tired! lol. I certainly got a lot done as my artsy year got off to a fast but very good start. Lots more to come, I hope!

I've put together a gallery page on my website where I'll post photos each month so that I have a single location for the entire project... I'll add new photos there as I finish spreads in the book and then link to the summary blog post after it's live. That's the plan, at least ;) Hopefully I can keep it up, the first month was lots of fun!

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ARTifacts - January 2017

If you follow me on Instagram, you've probably seen a few of the art journal spreads I've posted recently that are labeled #ARTifacts. This is a new art journal I've started to try and document my creative / artsy year. If you haven't heard about this, the mastermind behind this project is Seth Apter (read more about the concept on his blog.) I think it's such a cool idea! I've already been tracking everything I do during the year in a kanban board on Trello, but I love this idea because it really celebrates each project and ultimately the book becomes a piece of art on its own.

So without further ado, here are the pages in my book for January (it was kind of a busy month for me, so there was a lot to document!)

Title page:

The first spread was entirely dedicated to my first beaded art quilt. I worked on it for almost 10 months, finally finishing it last month. I think wrapping up a project that big definitely deserves two pages!

The book I'm working in is handmade, and only about 5"x7". I wanted the pictures to be big enough to really see the project, so that meant I had to get creative in order to have room to write and also decorate the page. So, there are lots of interactive flaps on both sides of this spread!

For the last January spread, I documented my project day for Creative JumpStart 2017 as well as a few art journal pages I'd managed to get done that I particularly love.

Whew! That's it for January... looking back at all of that kind of makes me tired! lol. I certainly got a lot done as my artsy year got off to a fast but very good start. Lots more to come, I hope!

I've put together a gallery page on my website where I'll post photos each month so that I have a single location for the entire project... I'll add new photos there as I finish spreads in the book and then link to the summary blog post after it's live. That's the plan, at least ;) Hopefully I can keep it up, the first month was lots of fun!